Greg Smith is The Co-op's first CMO in its 55-year history. It's no wonder his to-do list stretches a mile and includes everything from brochures to outlet transformations, Facebook strategies and more.

Marketers who bypass their own IT department are missing an opportunity to invest in more worthwhile brand activities, OpenText’s CMO claims.

The company aims to build an ‘Internet of Everything’ that will link sensors, mobile devices and network infrastructure, chief strategy and technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, said.

South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a 'next big thing' at this year's event, finding it would be pretty hard.

Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "big data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-life successes as well as formal ways companies can develop big data strategies, according to a number of IDC analysts.

This year will be the year of larger scale adoption of big data technologies, according to analyst Gartner.

It’s a wonderful time to be leading as CMO - assuming you’re up to the challenge. As companies face growing pressure to drive growth in this unpredictable environment, marketing is increasingly on your CEO’s agenda and, rest assured, it is being hotly debated in the boardroom, as well.

Technology tools for achieving and measuring client contact are opening up ways for charities to interact with sponsors, yet there’s a long way to go before fundraising becomes a digital exercise.

Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands.

Oracle first announced its Social Relationship Management product family several months ago at OpenWorld, but has now taken steps to actually integrate the components of the product set, which it gained through a number of acquisitions over the past year.

The average tenure of a CMO has risen dramatically in recent years, and is seen by many to signify a CMO’s legitimacy to ultimately taking the top job: CEO.

"Fewer people are experiencing your brand on your website," says Jeremy Dedic, the user experience practice leader at digital agency Rightpoint.

Given her solid background in the software and telecoms space, it shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn PGi’s marketing chief Melissa Wong is a passionate believer in CMOs embracing technology. What will arguably raise more eyebrows is that she doesn’t like to be called a marketer.

With dozens of social marketing venues for its divisions and subdivisions, General Electric still retains central oversight, largely through its use of analytics.

The CMO has finally arrived. It might have taken five years to get there and involved a radical transformation of marketing as a practical function and principle, but the CMO has officially become a leader of corporate strategy.

Technology is infiltrating all aspects of marketing, regardless of whether you see it as a good or bad thing. The questions is, how does the average CMO keep on top of it all?

Gartner’s report on the decline of the CIO and rise of the marketer as the key technology buyer made plenty of waves last year. According to the analyst group, 35 per cent of enterprise IT expenditure by 2015 will be out of the CIO’s hands, with CMOs responsible for the majority of technology purchasing by 2017.

As Google touts its new Glass technology one thing is becoming clear: if computerised eyewear becomes popular to the same level that smartphones have, Glass will change our lives forever.

The marketing community has been having so much fun with the term social CRM it's hard to know exactly what it means.

A new study has found 96 per cent of Australian marketers are using content marketing to reach out to customers but just 29 per cent are happy with its effectiveness.